It's worth pointing out that -- 60 Hz hum canceling aside -- you can always beef up a single coil to sound like a humbucker with the right EQ or boost pedal. You can not un-fart a woofy humbucker with pedals alone. (Coil splitting/tapping is another story, but I doubt OP wants to bust out a soldering iron just yet.) In the end, it's all a matter of taste and how much you want to tinker, but I wouldn't categorically rule out single coils.
It's worth pointing out that -- 60 Hz hum canceling aside -- you can always beef up a single coil to sound like a humbucker with the right EQ or boost pedal. You can not un-fart a woofy humbucker with pedals alone. (Coil splitting/tapping is another story, but I doubt OP wants to bust out a soldering iron just yet.) In the end, it's all a matter of taste and how much you want to tinker, but I wouldn't categorically rule out single coils.